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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fragile \Frag"ile\, a. [L. fragilis, from frangere to break; cf. F. fragile. See Break, v. t., and cf. Frail, a.] Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.
The state of ivy is tough, and not fragile.
--Bacon.
Syn: Brittle; infirm; weak; frail; frangible; slight. -- Frag"ile*ly, adv.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1510s, "liable to sin, morally weak;" c.1600, "liable to break;" a back-formation from fragility, or else from Middle French fragile (Old French fragele, 14c.), from Latin fragilis "easily broken," from root of frangere "to break" (see fraction). Transferred sense of "of frail constitution" (of persons) is from 1858.
Wiktionary
a. Easily break or destroyed, and thus often of subtle or intricate structure.
WordNet
adj. easily broken or damaged or destroyed; "a kite too delicate to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old bones"; "a frail craft" [syn: delicate, frail]
vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"
lacking solidity or strength; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy construction"; "a fragile link with the past" [syn: flimsy]
Wikipedia
Fragile may refer to:
Fragile is a 2005 Spanish-British horror film directed by Jaume Balagueró.
Fragile is the debut album by the band Saron Gas, which would eventually become Seether. The album was released only in South Africa. After this album, Wind-up Records asked the band to change their name—because Saron Gas was a homophone for sarin gas, a deadly nerve agent—and the band decided on "Seether".
The versions of the tracks on this album are unique, though seven were re-recorded for Disclaimer. It is notable that all the singles from Disclaimer were originally from Fragile and no originals from the next album would be singles. "Take Me Away" was re-worked into an acoustic song for Disclaimer II.
The seven tracks re-recorded for Disclaimer were: "69 Tea", "Pride", " Fine Again", " Driven Under", "Your Bore", "Pig", and " Gasoline".
Fragile is the seventh and final album released by British band Dead or Alive in 2000. Like their album Fan the Flame (Part 1), this album has only seen a release in Japan from Japanese big independent record company Avex Trax, where the band is very popular. Containing a total of thirteen tracks, the album contains some new material as well as re-recordings and remixes of past hits. Also included is a remake of U2's "Even Better Than the Real Thing", which had previously appeared on a U2 tribute album.
In 2001 Dead or Alive released Unbreakable, a remix album containing still more versions of songs from Fragile.
Their first and only single from the album, "Hit and Run Lover", was an instant hit in Japan. It is considered to be Dead or Alive's last major hit in Japan, as it reached number 2 on the Japanese Oricon Chart.
Fragile is the fourth studio album by the English progressive rock band Yes, released on 26 November 1971 by Atlantic Records. It is their first album recorded with keyboardist Rick Wakeman in the band's line-up after Tony Kaye was fired for having a lack of interest in learning more electronic keyboards. Formed of nine tracks, four are group performances while the remaining five are solo features written by each member. Its cover was designed by Roger Dean, who would design their future band logo, stage sets, and many of their future album covers.
Fragile received a positive reception upon its release and was a commercial and critical success, reaching No. 4 on the US Billboard Top LPs chart and No. 7 on the UK Albums Chart. " Roundabout" was released as a single in the US which reached No. 13 and is one of the band's best known songs. The album is certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for selling over 2 million copies.
Fragile is the debut album by American singer Cherrelle. It was released on April 8, 1984 by Tabu Records and was the first of four records for the label (she would leave Tabu after the release of 1991's "The Woman I Am").
The album was mostly written, arranged and produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis ( a/k/a Flyte Time Productions), and, under their guidance, she scored a smash R&B hit with " I Didn't Mean to Turn You On". The song reached number eight on the US R&B chart and number 86 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Fragile is a novel by bestselling author Lisa Unger. It is the first book set in The Hollows, and features Jones Cooper.
Fragile is the seventh leader album by Japanese Pianist Junko Onishi, released on September 23, 1998 in Japan. It was released on May 4, 1999 by Blue Note Records.
"Fragile" is a 2016 song by Norwegian DJ and record producer Kygo and British singer Labrinth. It was released as the first promotional single from Kygo's debut studio album, Cloud Nine.
"Fragile" is a song written and performed by English musician Sting from his second studio album ...Nothing Like the Sun. Released as a single the following year, it placed to number 70 on the UK Singles Chart. Sung additionally in both Spanish and Portuguese under the titles "Fragilidad" and "Fragil", it appeared twice more on his 1988 EP variant of the album, Nada como el sol. The Spanish version features as a b-side to " I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying".
The song is a tribute to Ben Linder, an American civil engineer who was killed by the Contras in 1987 while working on a hydroelectric project in Nicaragua.
"Fragile" is a song by American hip hop recording artist Tech N9ne, taken from his thirteenth studio album Something Else (2013). "Fragile" was released on July 17, 2013 as the album's second single. It was produced by ¡Mayday!, Daniel "Keys" Perez and Ralfy "FAFA" Valencia. The song features a guest verse from fellow American rapper Kendrick Lamar, and the chorus is sung by ¡Mayday! and Kendall Morgan.
"Fragile" details each rappers disdain for music journalists and their criticism of their music. Ironically, the song was met with generally positive reviews from music critics. A music video was released on February 9, 2014 featuring the artists rapping and singing in an abandoned warehouse. The song peaked at numbers 23 and 38 on the US Billboard Hot Rap Songs and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts.
Usage examples of "fragile".
I deserved a kick in the pants for my meddlesomeness, but lo and behold, three weeks later a fragile blue aerogramme with a Swiss postmark arrived from the Montreux-Palace Hotel.
In the hothouse Aubade stood absently caressing the branches of a young mimosa, hearing a motif of sap-rising, the rough and unresolved anticipatory theme of those fragile pink blossoms which, it is said, insure fertility.
As fragile, she thought, as the lacy balalaika music trapped in its metal box.
In an age of custom-engineered biogenic amines, nobody had to stay fragile.
But as the situation becomes bleaker and bleaker, the still fragile alliance between these long-hostile lands begins to fray.
Between the vessels was a breakaway point at which a closed pressure door shielded the fragile human body from the deadly vacuum of space when the ships parted.
All humans had repeat sequences, the presence of which were associated with various diseases: spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy, fragile X mental retardation, myotonic dystrophy, Huntington disease, spinocerebrellar ataxia, dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy, and Machado-Joseph disease.
Lying there listening to her heartbeat, Cade slowly relaxed into a strange, fragile sense of peace.
The vast banner of Ro Holding hung behind the dais, hiding the door, so fragile and old that black swan melted into blue-black night, and only the tarnished threads depicting the stars of the Cygnet in flight seemed to hold the darkness together.
The body of a diabetic is not unlike the fragile environment of this dunescape, where the geology, hydrology, wildlife, food chain, and human influences all interact in a delicate dance that determines the health of the whole system.
Once he asked me what an ecdysiast was, pronouncing the word perfectly but carefully, as if it were fragile.
He had the bottle and the glasses ready when the tall, fragile young man seeped in through the doorway of his day cabin, looking like a wisp of ectoplasm decked out in Survey Service uniform.
His fragile expectations would inevitably dampen as she attacked her salad, flickered as she swallowed garlic escarole with vulgar relish, guttered with the entree, and died over brandy and cheese.
Not a court-martial, because the newly formed alliance was too fragile for that, but a military court of inquiry.
Earth geriatric treatments, but the secret to his immense age was supposedly that the weightlessness vastly reduced the strain on his fragile body.